Wind onshore leads at 11 GW; brown coal, hard coal, and gas fill the pre-dawn gap alongside 11.4 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 21%
54%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.4 GW
Total generation
-11.4 GW
Net import
105.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
325
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps revealing the lignite conveyor belts and open-pit mine edge. Wind onshore 11.0 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across a flat north-German plain, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the dark — rotors slowly turning. Hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-left as a large power station with tall rectangular boiler houses, prominent chimney stacks emitting thin grey plumes, coal stockpiles illuminated by floodlights. Natural gas 4.3 GW sits at centre-right as compact CCGT units with single polished exhaust stacks and visible heat-shimmer, warmly lit by facility lighting. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is glimpsed at the far-right horizon as a faint line of tiny red lights above a black sea. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and modest smokestack near the centre, woodchip piles under work lights. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure at the far left edge, water faintly reflecting facility lighting. The sky is completely black — a clear, starry, moonless April night at 4 AM, no twilight or sky glow whatsoever, only the Milky Way faintly visible overhead between the steam plumes. The landscape is flat to gently rolling, dormant early-spring vegetation with bare branches and patches of frost on the ground suggesting 1.7°C. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — a sense of costly energy, the air thick near the thermal plants. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of indigo, umber, and amber; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against profound darkness; atmospheric depth with steam dissolving into the starfield. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling-tower shells, aluminium-clad CCGT housings. No text, no labels.